[media-credit name=”RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post” align=”alignnone” width=”495″][/media-credit] If you’re hating on the mid-April snow, you’re basically hating on river rafting, fishing and more. Above, rafters on a trip with Clear Creek Rafting Company make their way down Clear Creek in May of 2011.

If you’re on social media, you’ve surely seen the incessant complaining.

If you’ve somehow missed it, you’re lucky. But if that’s the case, we’re here with the Cliff’s Notes: “There’s snow! In Colorado! In April! Snow! Isn’t it spring? The sidewalks are icy! The streets are dangerous! OMG THERE’S SNOW!”

All that hyperbole is true — this snowstorm has rocked Denver, the mountains and beyond. But what’s hard to understand is all the surprise, not to mention all the negativity.

[media-credit name=”Provided by the Travel Channel” align=”aligncenter” width=”495″][/media-credit] Kevin Michael Connolly, with the trademark skateboard that he uses to get around, takes a break from filming in Hawaii.

No legs? No problem, says Kevin Michael Connolly, who was born without ’em, and at age 27, probably has accomplished more than most people twice his age with all of their limbs intact.

Let’s list a few: Traveled around the world? Check. Written a memoir? Check. Had his photography exhibited at the Smithsonian? Check. Won silver at the X-Games in Aspen, dived off a 40-foot cliff, surfed, zip-lined, river-rafted…Yeah, yeah. Check, check, check, check, check.

Now Connolly has his own TV show, “Armed & Ready,” which premieres Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 10|9c on the Travel Channel (check out a slideshow of photos from the show). The premise? He travels around the globe again – the same way he has since he was a kid, without a wheelchair or prosthetics – attempting all kinds of crazy adventures, usually with the help of engineers and scientists who MacGyver all sorts of devices to get him through it.

[media-credit id=75 align=”alignright” width=”225″][/media-credit] This is an actual campsite really far away from parking lots or artisanal cheeses. The dog, who hiked several miles to get to this choice spot, would be annoyed to know that a dual-sport motorcycle was an option.

Apparently what Weaver hilariously calls “gentlebros” ante up $2,500 ($3,500 if they want to rent a dual-sport motorcycle) for three days (three days!) of what the WC’s website calls “off-the-grid” camping, “gourmet cuisine” and “a film crew documenting the entire adventure.”

For laughs that will last you several hours — my favorite quote: “It’s almost as if the wild was designed as a proving ground for men” — watch the short video that Gawker cobbled together from what the WC offers to show how the participants “reclaim masculinity through adventure” by doing things like throwing axes against dead trees in Sequoia National Forest and caramelizing ribs with a blowtorch on the grill.

I don’t know what you spent on your last camping trip, but even when I’ve swung by Marczyk Fine Foods and loaded up on lobster tails (no blowtorch needed), fancy salads and really great chocolate, I’ve been hard-pressed to break, say, $500 on a long weekend camping trip for about 6-8 people, and that includes booze.

Then again, we didn’t have a film crew along.

Kyle Wagner is the editor of the Travel and OutWest sections at The Denver Post.

Remember when Outside magazine was about adventure sports and not trying to be the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue?

Lindsey Vonn in a bathing suit on the February cover of Outside magazine elicited no surprise responses around the office. The women were annoyed, the men delighted.

When did Outside stop being about adventure sports and start being a cross between Maxim and the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue?

The ski racer — remember, she skis for a living! — is holding a jump rope like it’s a whip, and showing way more cleavage than, as one co-worker put it, “you would ever see in ski wear.” Inside, she’s photographed in a pseudo-dominatrix outfit.

This is my mom. At the pyramids of Giza, just outside traffic-filled Cairo. Photo by Ricardo Baca, The Denver Post

It’s such a surreal experience — standing at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Breathing the thick air, the sand beneath your feet and the sculpted rock under the weight of your hands. Taking it all in — three pyramids within throwing distance of modern urban sprawl. Registering the immensity, the antiquity. Questioning the impossibility of such an ancient feat. And, of course, fending off the relentless tout who really wants to sell you 10 postcards for six Egyptian pounds (about $1).

Trip planning can be a blast. It can also be stressful. Guidebooks are a great starting place regardless.

Everybody has their own unique style of travel, right? It’s why people like to say, “If you travel well with somebody, you’ll be just fine when you _____________.” (Fill in the blank, really — “get married,” “move in together,” etc.)

Mom and I travel well together, but we do have different styles. I’m a backpacker — crowded bus terminals, on-the-fly decisions, hilarious amounts of discomfort and all. Surely if my mom were 40 years younger, she’d be into the comedy of 25-hour bus rides and dorm sleeping accommodations in gun-filled train station basements. But my mom isn’t a backpacker, and while she doesn’t need four-star hotels, she prefers to have a western toilet attached to her room.

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